Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:02:13 -0700 From: John E Hein <jhein@timing.com> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux-pango/cairo vs firefox/seamonkey/flock Message-ID: <18256.31317.682880.921587@gromit.timing.com> In-Reply-To: <20071130210120.1c8b3150@deskjail> References: <20071103210632.GB72327@amilo.cenkes.org> <1194124724.10479.35.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <20071105204645.GE64094@amilo.cenkes.org> <20071116110040.247fnnkzk08gc0sc@webmail.leidinger.net> <20071130192912.GB1524@amilo.cenkes.org> <20071130210120.1c8b3150@deskjail>
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Alexander Leidinger wrote at 21:01 +0100 on Nov 30, 2007:
> > > RUN_DEPENDS= ${LINUXBASE}/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0:${PORTSDIR}/devel/linux-glib2
> > > \
> > > + linux-cairo>=0:${PORTSDIR}/graphics/linux-cairo \
> > > ---snip---
> > >
> > > I don't think this will work well, please use the complete path
> > > like with the other parts of RUN_DEPENDS.
> >
> > I don't have a strong preference, but please elaborate. IMO, it
> > is easier to type and it should work.
>
> You depend upon a lib, but the target is RUN_DEPENDS, not LIB_DEPENDS.
> From bsd.port.mk:
> ---snip---
> # RUN_DEPENDS - A list of "path:dir[:target]" tuples of other ports this
> # package depends to run. The test done to determine
> # the existence of the dependency is the same as
> # FETCH_DEPENDS. This will be checked during the
> # "install" stage and the name of the dependency will
> # be put into the package as well. If the third field
> # ("target") exists, it will be used instead of
> # ${DEPENDS_TARGET}.
> # LIB_DEPENDS - A list of "lib:dir[:target]" tuples of other ports this
> # package depends on. "lib" is the name of a shared library.
> # make will use "ldconfig -r" to search for the library.
> # lib can contain extended regular expressions.
> ---snip---
>
> As you can see RUN_DEPENDS wants a path, not a lib. I think you mixed
> this with LIB_DEPENDS. The reason why we can not use LIB_DEPENDS is,
> that it calls the FreeBSD ldconfig. For linux programs this is wrong.
> One could argue, that we should modify LIB_DEPENDS to use the linux
> ldconfig if USE_LINUX is set, but this is not the case yet, and I
> haven't looked carefully at LIB_DEPENDS to make my mind up if this is a
> good way to go or not (maybe it is, we could maybe detect if a linux
> lib port hasn't run the linux ldconfig at all).
Andrew's way is to use a package spec (using pkg_info to query). The
bsd.port.mk comments don't do justice to that alternative, but it's
perfectly legitimate.
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